Great place, although I've found that the Chinatown location is more consistent in terms of quality. They'll sell you almost any of their dim sum items still frozen - I keep a bunch of their lo mai gai (sticky rice in lotus leaves w/ chicken and Chinese sausage) in my freezer at all times.

Absolutely eat the whole thing - provided the shrimp are fresh and fried properly. In perfect fried shrimp, every part of shell including the tail should be as crisp as the tempura batter, and the stuff inside the head should have an intense shrimp flavor. Bad fried shrimp can be pretty gross: shells are chewy and the head tastes like, well, rotten shrimp.

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